Good morning and
welcome to Morning Serial.
Okay, good morning
and welcome to Thursday,
affectionately known
around here as Friday Eve.
Well, today people and some of you
can appreciate this more than others.
Today is National Potty Dance Day,
honoring that universal wiggle dance
that we've all done when the bathroom
was just a little too far away.
And just reminding us
that we're all human
and sometimes urgently so.
Well, the answer to yesterday's trivia
question, apartheid.
The term for racial
separation in South Africa
was apartheid.
And now the essential
vitamins in your morning cereal,
today's quote is from
birthday girl turning 52 today,
Eva Mendez, who said, quote,
"I don't need to be perfect,
"I just need to be present," end quote.
All right, your morning decode,
release that pressure to be flawless
and instead focus on being fully engaged
and fully available and consistent in
your present moment.
All right, well, let's
hear from the experts now.
It is time to pour in some let them
theory by Mel Robbins.
And you're asking, what?
I thought we finished the book yesterday.
We did, we finished the chapters,
but we are in the appendix now
where there's some
still really good advice.
This one is how to
apply let them to parenting.
All right, so parents listen up.
Mel is acknowledging that parenting
is where control issues
go to lift weights, okay?
You care deeply, you want
outcomes, you want safety,
but she gently challenges that instinct.
She says, quote, "Your
child's life is theirs to live,"
end quote.
Now that can feel both
freeing and real terrifying.
The let them principle in parenting means
allowing children to
experience discomfort,
disappointment and
consequences, age appropriate ones,
of course, but without
rushing in to fix everything, right?
Mel explains that rescuing
too quickly teaches dependence,
not resilience, quote,
"Confidence is built through experience,
not protection," end quote.
And she encourages parents
to pause before intervening,
ask, "Is this unsafe
or just uncomfortable?"
There's also a shift in identity here.
Instead of being the
architect of your child's future,
you become the guide, the support,
the steady presence there.
She adds, quote, "Your job
is not to control the path,
it's to walk besides them," end quote.
So this section is
emphasizing modeling over managing.
Children learn how to regulate emotions
by watching you regulate yours.
They learn boundaries by
watching you honor yours, right?
So the let them
approach doesn't mean neglect,
it means trust, trust that your child
can navigate social hiccups,
trust that they can solve small problems,
trust that they can
recover from them as well,
and trust that you've
equipped them more than you realize.
All right, here it is.
Your Thursday takeaway
parents is guide your children,
don't control them, and
let growth do its quiet work.
So today, and if you're
doing the potty dance,
we are almost done, hang in there.
Today, attack your Thursday
with presence over perfection.
All right, now the prize from
the bottom of the cereal box,
the morning cereal
trivia question of the day.
Here it is.
What disorder is caused
by an extra chromosome 21?
All right, thanks for listening to
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for the answer to the trivia question
and for more sugar for your soul.
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